the-macra:

THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.

whitepeopletwitter:

the-pink-hacker:

liquidcrystalsky:

liquidcrystalsky:

liquidcrystalsky:

dumbest firefox feature you can just set whatever the fuck you want to be your default search engine

not the dumbest actually this rocks

(go on a page with a search bar and right click the address bar at the top of the page, an option gets added to the bottom and you can even set custom shortcuts for it if it’s not your main one)

WAIT NO THIS ACTUALLY FUCKS SEVERELY

you can add shortcuts and it searches DIRECTLY on the site bypassing external search engines entirely!!!!!!

WELCOME BACK TOOLBARS

I use the Minecraft wiki and Wikipedia ones all the time. If someone hasn’t setup a browser extension to add it as a search engine, it’s really easy to make your own too.

maviyenot:

enki2:

sar-kalu:

penny-anna:

sar-kalu:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

im gonna have to keep seeing that tinnitus article over & over aren’t i :/

notes full of people like ‘omg i can’t believe doctors have been misunderstanding what tinnitus is’ and 'i didn’t know doctors thought tinnitus was imaginary’ yeah no the information about tinnitus in the article is actively misleading. no medical authority thinks tinnitus is universally a brain problem bcos it demonstrably is not.

How is the info in the article misleading? Because I read it to my Mum who has tinnitus and never went to a doctor about it because she’s of the gen where it was considered to be a brain/ear thing and therefore unfixable - and she has since started looking up whether there are treatments availble, and she’s been dealing with it for like, 40plus years at this point.

Like, admittedly I skimmed the article to where it got interesting, it was a bizarre read elsewise, but yeah, would love to hear your take on this.

1. it presents the concept of tinnitus being a physical noise that can be picked up by recording equipment as if it’s a brand new discovery. it is not, this is called objective tinnitus and is a known condition.
2. the article says that the NHS defines tinnitus as a brain problem. this is not true - the NHS just defines tinnitus as 'hearing noises in your ears that don’t have an external source’. tinnitus is associated with a whole host of physical disorders.
3. doctors do sometimes attribute cases of tinnitus where they can’t find a cause to stress but not all doctors do that; and even if they did, it still wouldn’t be the case that the NHS universally defines tinnitus as a brain problem. as stated above, they do not, because it is not.
4. when I first starting seeking medical help for my tinnitus i was under the impression that all tinnitus was caused by damage to your hearing which turned out not to be the case. so how laypeople think tinnitus works and how doctors think tinnitus works are not necessarily the same!
5. even if the medical consensus was at some point that tinnitus was universally an unfixable brain problem (I find this unlikely based on the range of physical conditions that are known to cause it - meniere’s disease causes tinnitus and it was first identified in 1861), the article was written about the present day and that is not the current medical consesus.

does that all make sense?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense, and I didn’t get the whole brain thing, except as like maybe your hearing got damaged but fixed itself, and now the sound is psychosomatic. But I’m fairly sure that psychosomatic symptoms usually mask an underlying problem, or at least, that’s how I understand it based on some stuff I’ve read.

But yeah, no, that makes heaps of sense, and I kind of wish it was more generally known; because yeah, as I said, my Mum’s been dealing with it for 40+ years and always said she wished she could get it fixed but it’s “just one of those things”.

I’m pretty sure hers is from hearing damage, too many live gigs in the 80s and 90s; but given her recent diagnoses with a few chronic health problems, maybe it’s not. Idk. I might press her into seeking treatment, tbh.

Mostly, though - thank you for the information and clarification; and also, do you ever think that the medical science industry needs a better PR team? Because I have got to stop learning groundbreaking shit on tumblr and yet, I probably won’t.

So yeah, huge thanks, I really appreciate the time you took to answer my question. :)

martyrbat:

interestingmistakes:

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn’t want credit for fear of being terminated.

[ID: art of the progress rainbow flag. The white, light pink and blue, brown, and black arrow stripes (which represents trans people, marginalized queer people of color, people with HIV/AIDS, and members of the community that have been lost) is replaced by the Tumblr disclaimer, “This content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines.” END ID]

ironwoman359:

sunshine304:

firesidoni:

:

oh damn, okay, so literally last night i was talking with friends about how unrealistic the golden horse in tears of the kingdom is and how it feels like they were just trying to one-up the white horse in breath of the wild, and then i run across this post, do a tiny bit of looking, and—no really gold horses are actually literally a real-world thing!

I remember reading about this breed in horse books. They’re indeed very very old (over 3000 years old) and come from the deserts in turkmenistan. The way their hair is built helps them with the extreme temperature changes in the desert.

They’re tough, with high endurance and intelligence, friendly and sensitive.

Oh my god if 8 year old me had known about this it would have been OVER

vergess:

jactingjoices-deactivated202406:

jactingjoices-deactivated202406:

we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You’re correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.

rubixpsyche:

raychleadele:

“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

Load bearing mutual

screampotato:

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you’re talking about the design of the boat, you say “it”.

When the boat is still being built, your say “it”.

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say “it” or “she”.

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say “she”, unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say “it”.

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say “she”. If you continue to say “it” at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don’t really know anything about you may say “it” (“there’s a big boat, it’s coming this way”). But if you know its name, it’s probably “she” (“there’s the Waverley, she’s on her way to Greenock”).

If you are talking about boats in general, you say “it” (“when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over”)

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it’s “she” (“she’s a grand boat”). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily (“it’s as ugly as sin”, “she’s a grotty old tub”).

If she has a boy’s name, she’s still she. “Boy James”, “King Edward”, “Sir David Attenborough”? The pronoun is she.

If it’s a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it’s a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

thememedaddy:

biioshocker:

bentley girl bad ending (x)

vergess:

jactingjoices-deactivated202406:

jactingjoices-deactivated202406:

we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You’re correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.

shotoria:

mynnthia:

was tаlking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru’s initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru’s situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

ALT

(via @juniepops)

vincent-sinclair-deserved-better:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

tumblr is, if anything, the Appalachia of social media…easy to get lost, sparsely populated, out of the loop with fast-moving modern trends. Attached to tradition. Close-knit communities. Believe in “talk shit, get hit.” Everyone is doing their own thing in their own obscure little holler. Prone to pulling the most inventive turns of phrase you’ve ever heard out of nowhere. Somebody’s always starting a racket. We sometimes repel outsiders with much aggression. Lots of talk about hell and damnation to be found. Everybody tends to forget about us for some reason

What is pirating media but the moonshining of the internet

biioshocker:

bentley girl bad ending (x)

gaykarstaagforever:

makahitaki:

restinpiss:

souldoes-things:

creatures-in-posts:

crookedcasket:

barkingcrows:

mousegirlheart:

cablll:

antlershade:

rustre:

railroadreverie:

cupsofjade-deactivated20250509:

bruntalism:

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drunkmice:

accessibletweets:

fuckfreaks3:

[Image ID:

The “is this a pigeon” meme with the speaker labeled “radical social justice spaces” asking, “Is this accountability?”

The butterfly is covered up with a large thought bubble that says, “Completely obliterating a trans woman’s entire support network leaving her a traumatized bundle of nerves who feels like she’ll never have any community because you’ve convinced her she’s a monster.”

End ID.]

What a statement Tumblr turned this into, removing the image and the person who explained it

girldickdotcom:

tumblr girls love to text someone a thought or joke and then post the exact same thing immediately after

crustycrow:

i know how to identify all of the barksies now.

sunfang:

uchihakakashi:

why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

earlgreytea68:

Okay. It’s time for an AI rant.

My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, “Maybe I’ll proofread your paper for you in exchange,” meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, “Cool,” and gave him the file. And he said, “Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!” And I said, surprised, “What? Where?” Because I’m sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.

And then he pointed to the screen and said, “Look at all the blue and red lines you have.”

And I said, “Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I’m ignoring because the computer is wrong.” And then I paused and added, “You know you can’t proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?” And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, “It didn’t have a blue or red line.”

There’s a very good reason for that: THAT’S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN’T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.

I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.

I don’t want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It’s not just that I’m freaked out by people being like, “I use it to write novels!” (Although I don’t see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! “I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z.” But…why? Why not just…use your own brain…to…brain…storm? The computer doesn’t even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, “But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!” So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don’t belittle the wonder of thinking.

I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to “Wouldn’t it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?” Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I’m not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.

queer-as-city-folk:

queer-as-city-folk:

Old timey radio voice: the automobiles seek to eliminate us all

Old Timey Radio voice: The train is a kindly home to all manner of homosexuals and other queer abnormalities, it carries love, not cruelty

idontmindifuforgetme:

idontmindifuforgetme:

”Wow you’re so self aware for your age!” I’ve been filtering every experience I ever have through a thick sieve of shame ever since I turned 12

gimmick-patter:

gimmick-remover:

gimmick-thief:

blender-pixelize:

gimmick-thief:

minecraft:

This gimmick has been patted!

gimmick-patter:

gimmick-remover:

gimmick-thief:

blender-pixelize:

gimmick-thief:

minecraft:

This gimmick has been patted!

thememedaddy:

grimeclown:

grimeclown:

“I reported her because she was posting NSFW without mature labels which is against TOS!!!” you’d narc on someone for having their tits out at a gay bar because it’s illegal you simply are not trustworthy

Defending yourself by saying that censoring the sexuality of trans women is actually morally correct and justified. Actually just makes you look more like a bitch, believe it or not. Especially considering how often the “NSFW posts” in question often amounted to little more than armpit and forcefem jokes

mistchievous:

Tumblr PSA:

Idk how long this is going to be an issue. Maybe forever. But when you’re tagging people in Tumblr posts, you need to start tagging them in groups of five. After each group, press enter and tag the next group in a new block. If you do not do that, all of the tags after the first five will not work.

I learned this the hard way.

Your tags need to be organized like this.

@/tag1 @/tag2 @/tag3 @/tag4 @/tag5

@/tag6 @/tag7 @/tag8 @/tag9 @/tag10

@/tag11 @/tag12 @/tag13 @/tag14 @/tag15

And so on.

Hopefully this doesn’t last forever, but it’s definitely the way you have to do it for now.

happycrabitat:

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

xxtc-96xx:

delyth-thomas-art:

alymccart:

dduane:

nockergeek:

shinisenko:

My partner and I cancelled our Adobe accounts today because of this. Imagine if makers of physical art media had the right to pilfer your sketchbooks because you used their pencils and paints. That’s basically what Adobe is trying to foist on everyone.

These guys are way too famous for overreach. WTF.

Here’s how to cancel for free

Cancel Adobe without paying the cancellation fee

I’m pretty sure that has to be illegal, especially when it comes to NDAs in film and show projects who use photoshop for things like backgrounds. If they’re smart they’ll roll this back before they get sued

evilscientist3:

professionalchaoticdumbass:

puppygirl-hornyposting2:

i spent half an hour on this

himawaari:

✨🌹SENSHI🌹✨

paper-mario-wiki:

funnyflywheel:

thedeathdeelers:

ampervadasz:

cars be jumpin’

i still can’t fucking believe they gentrified lowrider hydraulics.

what was seen 20 years ago as a frivolity of the lower classes (distinctly due to its origins as a Mexican-American cultural artifact from the mid 20th century) is now a factory default for a high end formal luxury car. that’s nuts to me. CEOs are riding around in fuckin bumper smashers.

who’s driving their car they paid 120k for into sand and mud?

flipchild:

flipchild:

flipchild:

garlicfry:

Sooo it can do whatever it cares

World amazing creature

BADASS… LOOK @ THAT STANCE

bloody-monstrous-wolf:

6qubed:

suinicide:

6qubed:

necromancelena:

fishmech:

voidling0:

fishmech:

voidling0:

fishmech:

voidling0:

necromancelena:

Instead of using butter for your grilled cheese, you should switch to linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which ones work best for your needs

it’s funny, last time i recommended that (recently) it was on the ten-year old videos and internet laptop post

but like, enjoy using utorrent and dusty chrome on windows 7 i guess? i’d rather be people be safe than never have to adjust

what is wrong with you that you think windows 7 requires you to use utorrent or chrome. linux brain rot in action.

tell me windows 10 will run well on a 10 year old laptop that has like, 8g of ram for the average multi-tasking end user (read: browser tabs) ca. 2024

how are you not aware that windows 10 (an OS from 2015 intended to run on hardware going back to around 2008) will run fine on the mid-range if not higher spec 2014 laptop you are describing???

all the performance problems you would have under Windows will be there under Linux if not worse - the primary change in web pages is more and higher end audio/video usage and more useless webpage javascript nonsense, none of which linux can help with. if anything the Linux user is more likely to have faulty consumer hardware support which reduces the performance of the audio/video content.

Do The Meltdown and Spectre Patches Affect PC Gaming Performance? 10 CPUs Tested

For now, one thing is for sure: today’s patches, particularly those for Spectre Variant 2, affect performance in some workloads. Older CPUs are said to be hit the worst. Microsoft predicts that “some” users with Windows 10 on pre-Broadwell architectures will suffer noticeable slow-downs, while “most” users on Windows 7 and 8.1 on comparable systems will notice a decrease in performance.

Holy shit girl, you are computer illiterate as fuck! These are patches from 6 fucking years ago that were temporary bandaids until AMD and Intel could develop properly tested system microcode patches. The temporary problems with OSes - all oses that ran on x86/x86-64 mind you - resolved within weeks, beyond the total performance impact on all oses that changes to speculative execution to prevent a rare attack would cause.

Those same patches also affect Linux performance: they are CPU microcode patches that affect any operating system you run. Linux gives you exactly 0 benefit in this scenario. Like always.

Can you please try to come up with something real? I mean it’ll be hard, linuxailures have been trying for the whole quarter century I’ve been trying distros and haven’t managed it yet. But you should be able to do better than not comprehending a processor level security issue from 2018.

hey can you nerds stop arguing this post is about grilled cheese

…is a pizza technically grilled cheese

Only if you add a face down pizza on top

wait hang on that’s a calzone

neometalpussy:

neometalpussy:

hermits need to put xisuma in a cage with 0 enrichment just to see what happens. what he does

do the russian sleep experiment but only on him

mtg-player1:

fidgetspringer:

I didn’t know what the right term was in english so now i just look like some kind of knitting addict who just wants it to end.

[ID: google search “how to stop knitting”. /ID end]

icehaus:

jasmello:

doubleca5t:

doubleca5t:

One time I was explaining to my dad how unfair it is that every big city has at least a couple gay bars but there are only like 20ish lesbian bars left in the country and he responded with “That’s cause gay men have a good party culture. Lesbians don’t have time to party, they’re too busy debating the sociological implications of things and studying for postgrad degrees” and as much as I wanted to tell him he was out of line for that, as a lesbian who spends all her free time on Tumblr debating sociological implications and messaging other lesbians in discord servers where everyone has a PhD or masters for some reason I felt like I might not be the best person to make that argument

robotclownindulgence:

robotclownindulgence:

POV you just read the worst take ever

friendly reminder that it’s pride month and tumblr ceo and staff have gone out of their way to harass and ban trans women on their site so don’t give these clowns any of their money

charyou-tree:

homunculus-argument:

If any part of your plan involves the words “nobody could be that stupid”, please be prepared to be proven wrong at any minute at a moment’s notice. Pay in mind that the person determined to prove you wrong may already be aware of this assumption, and is already approaching your current location at an alarming speed.

Similarly, “If everybody would just…”

No.

Everybody will not just ____. Never, in the history of the world, has everybody coordinated well enough to just ____.

It literally doesn’t matter how you intended to finish that sentence. You’re going to have to accept that not everybody will follow the plan, even if it really is a good idea.

breaking-fixing-bad-posts:

fixing-bad-posts:

ALT

hot take i wanna eradicate transphobia so transphobes like literally die if that makes sense

he wanna eradicate transphobia

like literally

virtualgirladvance:

mossmittens:

Not his name